I agree...the Bible is a collection of inspired writings (a book of books), essentially a "library" with different genres (allegories, poetry, war stories, love stories), a chronicle of our encounter with God (inspired) passed down through the millenias.

Some bible though take out verse and many chapters like the good news bible only have 3 chapters of revelation

Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
I Corinthians 10:31
Is abortions glorifying God? I think not! Abortions is an abomination to God for he gives life, My mother was told by doctors to abort my youngest brother because they said he won't make it pass the age of 3 but Glory to God that he's 11 and still living and proving God is in control! Though my brother can't,walk or talk and has many more problems, my youngest brother is a blessing to the family! I ask you to count your blessings for you have many though they be as small as pea it is very big!

https://open.spotify.com/track/7xRD7R1ia1yO0ftbN9gLxa?si=CBiKobYrSSO3iAKj53TlGg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfplGJaJCWs

Merry Christmas and God bless you all!

merry Christmas to you as well

https://youtu.be/PJqudO-djW4

Thoughts?

agreed

christmas comes from a pagan holiday- the birth of a "sun god"

the catholic church changed the pagan festival into a more "acceptable" one for the masses

“December 25….a festival was celebrated among the
heathen, at that precise time of the year, in honour of
the birth of the son of the Babylonian queen of heaven
…the sun-god Nimrod…the same festival was adopted
by the Roman Church, giving it the name of Christ.”
–The Two Babylons
Alexander Hislop

I’ve heard that the church wanted to make the transition from pagan religion to Christianity easier for newer converts, so they created a holiday on the same day as the pagan one, but about Christ

yes

Tammuz is like Pan

It could also be that the pagan holidays moved to dec 25th to appease the Christians.

https://twitter.com/RealMattCouch/status/1342570835559723010

I feel like its worth pointing out that the 25th December has been suggested for the correct date of Jesus's birth from at least as early as AD 195, thus before the claims that it 'replaced' a pagan festival.
A few ancient historians claim to have verified this date using the documents from the census mentioned in Luke.
If you have the time I'd highly recommend listening to the podcast these graphics come from, as it looks in a lot more depth into the Christmas and Paganism debate

Hmm, interesting

I think, based on the grazing of sheep mentioned in the book of Matthew, it's more likely that it occurred in March. Interestingly, a conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn occurred in that month, in about 1 or 2 B.C.

If I read it correctly.

I question why the specific date really matters. I mean if it was so important, wouldn’t it have been included in the Bible? Thoughts?

Not sure. Perhaps there was a date discrepancy. Was the Julian calendar in use at the time? I think it was.

I haven't asked. What I've said is all I know.

The old Julian calendar was probably used but, we don't know since people used many different calendars in those times

You should ask him if it did. Angels are messengers of God, after all.

He said he woke up the moment it came close enough

Can you find the angel picture?

Or do you know what type of angel it is?

It was this exact picture that he said it looked exactly like

I think that is a seraphim

Or a heavily exaggerated one

What was the setting if he knows?

"A Sandhouse in the desert"

Also my mistake this was the picture he jumped at

Dude

I was literally thinking of a desert

It looks like a mix of ezekiel's wheel and a seraphim but heavily exaggerated

Desert had very blue skies